Final Crit

Here is some documentation from the final crit:

Final, Bunches of Video Process Work

Crit Day Movies

These are a couple of videos from crit day.

Final Project Update

Here is some rambling thoughts that I was having about the project. That I wrote into a word document over the weekend. More updates, videos and links will be following as soon as I can get the time and find all the documentation on this computer.

“I Do Not Understand You”

The initial idea of the project was an exploration of communication and the understanding between people. The interaction that goes along, the nature of technology as a medium to communicate as a focus. The focus and the thought was also to explore complex scenarios and see that from a third perspective that answers were obvious or that what was attempted to be said is obvious. That technology would enable and disable the communication process. That translating what something means and is said can be achieved if only seen in a certain way or light. Some things just don’t work. The biases and exploration of cultural differences continued to play a role. That technology and different forms of communication has their advantages and their weaknesses. That for instance the subtle hints or body language is lost in translation when someone is sending a text. That in theory it is impossible for anyone to fully understand and communicate exactly what they mean. That there is something always left out even when being direct the subtle auxiliary information that came to the various conclusions or reasoning to draw upon are seldom known by the audience. These factors cannot be all known and then the complexity for what the other person draws on and brings to the table of communication adds even more complexity to communication. In essence from the various research and thought and observation of communication is very complex and hard to fully grasp. A communication fully and perfectly is dang near impossible for one to achieve. “What we have here is a failure to communicate.”

The research proved a doubting proposition in exploring or showing this complexity of communication. What was determined to be needed is to simplify to look up and see what are tools to clearly communicate a message effectively and understandably. Concise, direct and relatable were the goals in creating such a piece of art, for public/private consumption, along with the goal to obviously learn something greater than oneself and grow as a human. The notion of talking and discussion while hinting at the idea that technology can be a disabler was deemed to be discussed. After a failure on many things with the original idea and the secondary idea and the third attempt the final piece was conceived and worked out to totality.

The piece illustrated the saying “I do not understand you” being play via audio to the viewer once a card was swiped over a certain location. The cards would be a digitalized stereotypical image of a nationality and the audio would be a stylized technological accident for the nationality depicted. The purpose would be the notion technology and a social commentary on our reactions to stereotypes and how they can be drawn into technology. That the voices were computerized digital auto created programs when certain text was added. The goal is to simply evoke questions of how the world is connected via technology and the common currency we all have and misunderstandings that can be developed between various people.

A huge chunk of classwork

Here's all of the leftover classwork that I haven't posted to to blog, UNTIL NOW.

A photo of the touch screen setup



Here's an image of the SD card Reader



and some videos

FInal Project Update

Here is an update on current work.

Final Project Progress 1

Here is a video update, I finally figured out how to upload things with my video recording device expect more updates (out of order) soonish.

Below is a screenshot of the set up I found online for recording sound on a wave shield for the Arduino, along with a library to do it that I am in the process of learning more about, from this site: Here

Fun with RFIDs

Artists Listing

Here are some artist that I have been looking at for my final project idea.


This work illustrates and is exploring the use of facial expressions and how this translates or conveys certain meanings to an observer:
-------"My attempt is to capture and manipulate images of faces such that one can see through or past the illusion of totality and down to the granular level of a base emotional language."
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http://human-intoface.net/



This is using a combination of text and image to illustrate and point to a purpose or a point of "What you do know can hurt you. Some of the worst secrets are those our friends keep from us. Some of the worst secrets are at work. Some of the worst secrets are at home. Some of the worst secrets are those we keep from ourselves."
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http://www.art.net/Studios/Visual/Rei/index-spir.html


I just thought this was very interesting:
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http://www.visualmusic.it/visualmusic.htm


Computer generated dialogue and the duality of the meanings and interpretations. This is super cool and I really like this work:
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http://www.kenfeingold.com/

Sounds controlling the input to show and reveal a different emotion to the viewer:
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http://aesthetic-machinery.com/emotions.html

Projects 31 and 32

Project 31- Pressure Sensor


Project 32- Digital Barograph

Projects 36, 21, and 22

Project 36- Temperature Sensor


Project 21- Scrolling LED


Project 22- Pong Game

Research for Final Project

Here are some of the website that I was looking through for researching ideas:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_analysis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialog_tree

http://www.onelonelypixel.org/soundart.html

http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Projects/ArduinoUsers#recorder

http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Projects/ArduinoUsers#ulysseshead

http://arduino.cc/playground/SmartGPU/SmartGPU

http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Projects/ArduinoUsers#sdArduServ

http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Projects/ArduinoUsers#TrampoLine

http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Projects/ArduinoUsers#urbancarpet

http://www.diymagicmirror.com/

http://weekendhobbyist.blogspot.com/2011/01/arduino-lilypad-5x8-led-jacket-design.html





The magic mirror seems to be something very interesting to me to interact and deal with some things that I was thinking about using conversation and interaction between a viewer and a user to understand things.

Final Project First Thoughts

Below are the images of my thoughts for class today and the notes I took down in our discussion as well.

Old Stepper Motor Vids

Ryan and I worked on these October 10th but I can't find them in the archives so I'm reposting the vids

Renate, Ryan, Emily- Project 19 and 20

With our powers combined.... we did this:

A Photo of our setup



Project 19


Project 20

Final Project thoughts

Haven't gotten to far in respect to the final project, but Me, Ryan, and Emily have all discussed working together again and expanding on the possibilities of the EEG sensor via the Mindflex.
So far we've briefly discussed it, so no specific ideas as of yet.

"Letting Go" Emily, Renate, Ryan Project Discussion

Due to the running out of time in class below please leave your comments and suggestions about our project below. Thank you all.

Process Videos

so we've been taking video of our process, here are our successes (and a few fails)
:)

Sensor Presentation

Here's our Presentation about the EEG sensor:



I had trouble getting the annotations to work,
Here are the links respectively

http://medicarduino.wordpress.com/category/eeg-brain-machine-interfaces/
Control TV/ control wheelchair
http://www.neurosky.com/Academics/University.aspx
artifical limb control/ ADHD studies/ Sleep disorders
http://www.neurosky.com/Academics/Education.aspx
monitors student's attention levels

Fritzing Around

Here is the schematic of our circuit for the group project. Enjoy.